List of German ambassadors in Denmark

Since 1656 Prussian envoys were appointed to Copenhagen , since 1868 those of the North German Confederation. From 1871 the German Reich appointed envoys to Copenhagen. During the occupation by the German Reich 1940–1945, these were replaced by authorized representatives. In January 1951, a consulate general of the Federal Republic of Germany was set up in Copenhagen, which was converted into an embassy in June 1951.

Heads of mission

Envoy from the German Reich

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
/ / German Empire
Tassilo von Heydebrand and the Lasa (* 1818; † 1899)		1865-1878	Since 1865 Prussian envoy , since 1868 also envoy of the North German Confederation, since 1871 envoy of the German Empire
Anton Freiherr von Magnus (* 1821; † 1882)		1878-1881
Maximilian von Philipsborn (* 1815; † 1885)		1881-1885
Ferdinand Eduard Freiherr von Stumm (* 1843, † 1925)		1885-1887
Egon von den Brincken		1887-1895
Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter (* 1852; † 1912)		1895-1899
Wilhelm Eduard Freiherr von Schoen (* 1851; † 1933)		1900-1905
Count Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck (* 1854, † 1916)		1906-1910
Julius von Waldthausen (* 1858; † 1935)		1910-1912
Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (* 1869; † 1928)		1912-1918
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (* 1873, † 1956)		1919-1922
Frédéric von Rosenberg (* 1874; † 1937)		1922
Gerhard von Mutius (* 1872; † 1934)		1923-1926
Ulrich von Hassell (* 1881; † 1944)		1926-1930
Herbert Freiherr von Richthofen (* 1879, † 1952)		1930-1936
Cécil von Renthe-Fink (* 1885 - † 1964)		1936-1942	Reich plenipotentiary since 1940
German occupation in World War II		1940-1945
Werner Best		1942-1945	Reich plenipotentiary

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Wilhelm Nodeke	1951-1954	Consul general since January 1951, ambassador since June 1951
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz	1954-1958
Gerhart Feine	1958-1959
Hans Berger	1959-1963
Friedrich book	1963-1966
Klaus Simon	1966-1970
Günther Scholl	1970-1973
Werner Ahrens	1973-1977
Harald Hofmann	1977-1981
Rudolf Jestaedt	1981-1986
Helmut Redies	1986-1987
Rüdiger von Pachelbel	1988-1991
Hermann Gründel	1991-1996
Johann Dreher	1997-2001
Johannes Dohmes	2001-2005
Gerhard Nourney	2005-2008
Christoph Jessen	2008-2011
Michael Zenner	2011-2014
Claus Robert Krumrei	2014-2017
Andreas Meitzner	2017-2019
Detlev Rünger	since 2019

Envoy from German states before 1871

Hanseatic envoy

→ Main article : List of Hanseatic ambassadors in Denmark

Prussian envoy

1656: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1748–1752: Friedrich Christian Hieronymus von Voss (1724–1784)
• 1814–1826: Wilhelm Heinrich Maximilian zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1773–1845)
• 1826–1830: Charles-Gustave de Meuron (1779–1830)
• 1830–1842: Atanazy Raczyński (1788–1874)
• 1842–1847: August Ludwig Schoultz von Ascheraden (1793–1859)
• 1847–1850: vacant
• 1850–1854: Karl von Werther (1809–1894)
• 1854–1859: Alphonse of Oriola (1812–1863)
• 1859–1864: Hermann Ludwig von Balan (1812–1874)
• 1864–1878: Tassilo von Heydebrand and the Lasa (1818–1899)

From 1867: envoy of the North German Confederation, from 1871: envoy of the German Reich (see above)

Saxon envoy

1743: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1700–1703: Johann von Schade (-1703)
• 1705–1711: Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel (1676–1749)
• 1711–1711: Jost Friedrich von Arnstedt (1670–1711)
• 1714–1715: Heinrich Friedrich von Friesen (1681–1739)
• 1717–1720: Gottlob Hieronymus von Leipziger

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• 1757–1768: Gustav Georg von Völkersahm (1712–1791)

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• 1778-: Carl Heinrich von Schlitz called von Görtz (1752–1826)

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• 1808–1815: Hans Rudolph August von Gersdorf (1767–1819)
• 1815–1836: Benedict Christian von Merbitz (1764–1837)

See also

• List of Danish ambassadors in Germany
• Ambassador of the GDR in Denmark

Individual evidence

1. ↑ richthofen.de
2. ↑ bundesarchiv.de
3. ↑ Friedrich Buch in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
4. ↑ Klaus Simon in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
5. ↑ Günther Scholl in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
6. ↑ Werner Ahrens in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
7. ↑ wz-newsline.de
8. ↑ ^{a b} Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of diplomacy, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001.